Peace prize award to former officials
NZPA-Reuter Washington Three former senior United States' officials who wrote an article proposing a no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons will share a $66,000 peace award, the Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation has announced. The prize has been awarded to Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Gerard Smith. The three were, respectively, Defence Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; national security adviser to President Johnson; and chief arms control negotiator under President Nixon. A former United States Ambassador to Moscow,
George Kennan, the fourth co-author of an article on no-first-use in the spring issue of “Foreign Affairs” magazine, won the Einstein Peace Prize last year for advocating a 50 per cent cut in United States and Soviet nuclear arms. The article was sharply criticised by Reagan Administration 'officials including the then Secretary of State, Mr Alexander Haig, who said that to renounce possible first-use of nuclear weapons would mean a huge increase in United States and Allied military spending on conventional forces, and reinstituting the United States military draft.
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